In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse..

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

When history calls, history calls..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

The only thing I was any good at was music..

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley.

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them -….